Inferiority Complex Quotes

• Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

  Alan Kay

  Nature, Flower, Should Have

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• It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

  Rupert Grint

  Self Esteem, Careers, Long

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• I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

  Barry Gibb

  Ego, Inferiority, Complexes

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• Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.

  Jessie Tarbox Beals

  Photography, Horse, Art

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• A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

  John B. Keane

  Thinking, Ireland And The Irish, Inferiority

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• I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

  Vanna Bonta

  Inferiority, Superiority Complex, Complexes

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• So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

  George J. Mitchell

  Relationship, Sports, Brother

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• He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Simple, Men

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.169, Modern Library

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• If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you have inferiority complex, or have a very deficient ego you will loose your temper very easily.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Anger, Ego

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• Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hatred, Inferiority, Emotion

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• Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Fashion, Women, Inferiority

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• Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.

  John Huston

  Beautiful, Giving, Trying

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• One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Humble, Humility, Inferiority

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.

  Kim Nam-joon

  Believe, Inferiority, Victim Mentality

  Source: kpopkfans.blogspot.com

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• Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

  Carl Jung

  Inferiority, Reason, Complexes

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't.

  Malcolm X

  Leader, Suffering, Inferiority

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

  Lionel Richie

  Artist, Inferiority, Egotistical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

  Yulia Tymoshenko

  Ukraine, Political, Suffering

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• When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Bored, Inferiority, Tire

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• One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

  Alvin Ailey

  Inferiority, Life Is, Breaking Down

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• Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Eye, Swimming, Rivers

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• Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

  Napoleon Hill

  Humorous, Positive Thinking, Men

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• Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Humility, Light, Feelings

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• Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

  Alfred Adler

  Reality, Expression, Feelings

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